Installing Drupal

I am trying to install Drupal 4.6.0 in the root directory of a site hosted with an ISP.

I have created a database and successfully executed the script to create the tables in the database.

I have also transferred all the Drupal files across to the server but when I browse to the site I get an error that looks like this:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /home/httpd/vhosts/ [domain name] /httpdocs/includes/tablesort.inc on line 90

where [domain name] is the name of my domain, which points to the directory concerned.

Hi All,

I should point out my tech skills are limited. I am currently using ez to build my site and was looking for alternatives.

I have download 4.6, extracted the files, created a database and used sql to import the file

when I try to access the site, I get this error

Warning: mysql_connect(): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2) in /home/longsiders/webs/reliableit.co.uk/htdocs/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' (2)

Can anybody help

i havent got a mail sender (sendmail) setup on the system yet
and well
i cant remember the password to login
the computer went funny and after i did my first initial log on, i lost the autogen password it gave me
how do i reset it all??
help please!

i want to reset the first initial user/password stuff and do it again

I was getting the following error after a clean install:
Unterminated comment starting line 97 in /home/andre/public_html/includes/tablesort.inc on line 97

It turns out that there was an extra carriage return at the very end of tablesort.inc. It may be due to the fact that I dowloaded the gz file onto a windows machine and unzipped it there before uploading everything to the linux web server.

Removed the CR and it works now.

i am not able to create an admin account.

the first problem i seem to get is that
the first log in page is ugly
no css theme or anything
2ndly

wheni click on create first accountv
i get "connection refused when attempting to contact localhost"

any ideas folks?

i need this up and runnin in a week
someone help please:(

On my site, I see something like http://www.example.org/?q=node/11, on the drupal site for example I see http://drupal.org/node/11. Is there something wrong with my setup, as it shows ?q=node in the URL?